From the Weill Cornell Newsroom:
Financial exploitation of older people by those who should be protecting them results in devastating health, emotional and psychological consequences. A group of international elder abuse experts met in June at Weill Cornell Medicine to map out a strategy for conducting research on this...

By R.J. Anderson for the Cornell Chronicle
Nearly 380 middle and high school students from 42 New York counties streamed across campus June 28-30 to launch rockets, dissect mouse embryos, calibrate watershed models, program robots and learn what it takes to create a sustainable future. Those activities were among...

In episode 6 of the BCTR podcast Doing Translational Research, center director Karl Pillemer talks with Christopher Wildeman about his research on mass incarceration and inequality. Christopher Wildeman is an associate professor of policy analysis and management in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell, where...

By Tyler Alicea ‘16, MPS ‘17 for the College of Human Ecology tumblr
For their work on aging, two College of Human Ecology faculty members have been named fellows for the Gerontological Society of America.
Corinna Loeckenhoff, associate professor of human development and associate professor of...

By Heather Lindsey for the Cornell Chronicle:
Twenty percent of people living in nursing homes are abused by other residents, according to a study by researchers in the College of Human Ecology and Weill Cornell Medicine.
“We were very surprised by the prevalence of aggression,” said senior author